Wisconsin Education Association Council Urges Members to Picket Costco

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First off I would like to say I've been taking a bit of time off from Politics. Really burnt out after the Nov. theft. So some of you won't see me around as much for a while.

From Badger;

The Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) has published and circulated this flyer calling on its members to form a picket line at the Costco store in Grafton, WI. I became aware of this when a WEAC member emailed it to me with the subject line: “WHY is my union getting involved in this?????”

Good question. The only apparent answer would be they want to interject themselves in this over some notion of “solidarity” with people who want to force unionization on Palermo’s Pizza. Perhaps WEAC is just trying to remind us they’re out there and show it’s still relevant.

Reading it, the aspect of this WEAC action I found particularly troubling is they are outright lying to their members. WEAC is claiming Palermo’s illegally fired “nearly 90 workers.” In reality, Irv Gottschalk, the regional director for the NLRB office in Milwaukee, was quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as saying that at most 7 full-time and 2 temp workers were fired “illegally” while the NLRB found the vast majority of terminations were in accordance with a federal audit that began before a minority number of employees demanded the right to form a union.

Wisconsin saw numerous calls for boycotts and other forms of intimidation during the flap over Governor Walker’s Act 10 debate. Such tactics made a lot of noise, but seemed to backfire more than anything.

I’ve never understood the mentality that drives people to damage the operations of companies for which they want to work. Then again, I’m not a thug.

First off I would like to say I've been taking a bit of time off from Politics. Really burnt out after the Nov. theft. So some of you won't see me around as much for a while.

I am convinced there is nothing we can do about politics, once government has gone this far out of control there is no bringing it back , it will have to take it's course and crash. The election process is so totally corrupt, there is no hope with that in the near future either.
All we can do about government is bitch and misery enjoys company, besides that we have a lot of things other than politics and soon will have more.

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.